Officials of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Las Vegas Events have never allowed a National Finals Rodeo contract to expire. They don’t plan to let this one go dark, either. To state it simply: Unless there is a rift that no one in either camp can foresee entering this year’s rodeo showcase, NFR will stay in Las Vegas for a long spell.
The lead character in “Zarkana” is a tortured magician named Zark, who is trapped in an abandoned theater, having lost the love of his life and his gift of magic. Begging to the beyond for the return of both, Zark is plunged into a bizarre, arcane universe replete with surreal sights and echoing sounds. In a broader sense, there’s a different sort of return-to-magic effort being made at Aria.
Newly notorious "Gigolos" star Steven Gantt's arrest last Thursday night stemmed from an incident in May, not from his conduct at Prince Harry's party at Wet Republic on Aug. 18.
Wayne Newton and his wife, Kathleen, appeared in court Thursday morning to seek a temporary restraining order against their business partner in the planned Casa de Shenandoah museum project. They got what they wanted, but there seems a long and bitter fight ahead.
Claire Sinclair spent a few days in Las Vegas catching the Frankie Moreno show, dining with Holly Madison at Golden Steer Steak House and hanging out at Crazy Horse III.
Nick Hissom has a lot of forces working in his favor -- Steve Wynn and Kenny Ortega being chief examples -- but says if he doesn't produce, none of those connections matter.
Ask Andy Choy what he studied in college and he smiles slightly. “I was actually a probability major,” he says after a one-beat pause. “I was a statistics major. So, I actually study the odds and understand it beyond the periphery.” That quality, understanding odds beyond the periphery, is vital to the success of Choy and the hotel he operates, the Riviera.
"Vegas Stripped" aired on Travel Channel for six episodes beginning in February. Originally, South Point owner Michael Gaughan liked the show. But he's seen enough.
Elton John checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. on Wednesday and was ordered to take a week off from performing because of a serious respiratory infection.
The Billboard Music Awards were at MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight, with a tribute to Whitney Houston and a show-closing medley by Stevie Wonder highlighting the ABC special.
“Oh, we have done the research, and 75 percent of all household decisions are made by wives or girlfriends,” said Jonathan Segal, the Britain-based CEO of the One Group. “And 100 percent of guys think they are in control, so women have learned exactly how to make the decisions while making us think we’re making them.”
Mike Tyson’s “Undisputed Truth” was predicted to be either an entertaining exercise in multimedia storytelling or a train wreck of mythic proportions. “Muted” or “measured” never entered the conversation.
One of the city’s great voices has fallen silent. Michaelina Bellamy, the principal singer in “Folies Bergere” at Tropicana for a decade ending in 1990 and a backing vocalist who toured with such greats as Engelbert Humperdinck and the Airmen of Note, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Visitors to the Palms walking into the hotel from its west entrance will immediately notice giant walls where there was once a sports book. There is a reason for that.
This was Brad Garrett’s kind of scene. A comedy club bearing his name, packed with friends, fellow comics and the resort executives who have provided him a place to play at MGM Grand.
MGM Resorts Chairman and CEO Jim Murren says the company is not heavy-handed about its message of environmental responsibility, but practices such at every level.
Mike Tyson is eager to show off his birds. Pigeons, specifically. More than 100 of them. They chirp away happily in the backyard of Tyson’s Seven Hills gated-community home. Tyson’s pets are perched in tall, wooden crates whose chicken-wire doors swing open to freedom.
Jamie Masada is trying to bring an identity to the Tropicana, one chortle at a time. Masada is the owner of the Laugh Factory franchise, which boasts comedy clubs in Hollywood; Long Beach, Calif.; and Chicago.
He wants goose bumps. Myron Martin frequently talks of goose bumps. He seems always to be experiencing goose bumps, or ruminating about goose bumps, or awaiting the moment when he will once again get goose bumps.
Mike Tyson had not expected to readily recall this moment of his life, this time a lifetime ago. But when Tyson starts to talk, the conversation careens and boomerangs in directions even he can’t foresee. It was a moment when he was pulled over by two patrolmen in Los Angeles.
The Skating Aratas, the wheeled darlings of “V — Ultimate Variety Show” at Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood, are to be featured on Thursday's episode of “Ellen.” The show is broadcast locally at 3 p.m. weekdays on KLAS Channel 8.
Sunday was to be a day of rest following a night of weighty opulence at the Keep Memory Alive Power of Love gala at MGM Grand Garden Arena. But Sammy Shore had other ideas, and he is 85 years old.
Consider the ram, and its significance in the life of Blake Sartini. It is the official animal of his home state — Nevada. When he hunts big game, Sartini often tracks the powerful and elusive desert bighorn sheep.
Sometimes, you don’t need words to convey the message. Fifteen minutes before midnight on a Saturday in Las Vegas was one such time. Stevie Wonder had summoned Muhammad Ali to the MGM Grand Garden Arena stage. Wonder led the crowd in a chant, calling out, “You are the greatest! You are the greatest!” The crowd shouted back as Wonder rocked on his piano bench.
The tribute to Muhammad Ali was an endless barrage of knockout blows at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night as the stars streamed into the Keep Memory Alive “Power Of Love” gala. The event was expected to be the city’s greatest party, and it was shaping up to be a truly heavyweight affair. Early in the program, attended by about 1,800 people seated for dinner on the floor of the Grand Garden Arena, President Barack Obama sent a message of congratulations to Ali via a taped message from Washington, calling Ali, “A true champion,” on the event of his 70th birthday.
A total of 130 live and silent auction items and packages will be offered to the 1,800 guests expected to attend Saturday night’s Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala celebrating Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday. Here's a look at some of the more dazzling packages and items up for bid.
When you walk into the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas, you are first met by a beyond-life-size portrait of J. Edgar Hoover holding a semiautomatic weapon trained at the entrance.
Emmy Award-winning set designer Andy Walmsley used 3D computer graphics to design two renderings of a set to be built for a Whitney Houston residency in Las Vegas that never happened.
It is news that might make fans of Marie Osmond feel a little faint. According to published reports, Osmond is in line to supplant "The Martha Stewart Show" on the Hallmark Channel with a new daily show carrying the befitting title, “Marie.”
Wynn Las Vegas Director of Race and Sports Operations Johnny Avello offers his odds for who will win Saturday night’s Miss America Pageant. Avello says any of his half-dozen picks could easily be the favorite.
As the Miss America contestants meet the public, en masse, for the first official photo opportunity of this year’s pageant, most of us see 53 attractive women.
This was the year of the trombone solo. That’s how I’ll best remember this topsy-turvy turning of the calendar, as 2011 is ushered out of the showroom as if part of a trombone-led parade at Frankie Moreno’s show at the Stratosphere.
When Shane Proctor boarded the bucking bull Black Attack near the end of the 2011 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, the event was already an unqualified success.
Frankie Moreno has been headlining at the Statosphere showroom for a little more than a month, and already the hotel has proven a go-for-broke strategy in marketing its new star.
They seem not at all alike, these performers and performances. One is a carnival of dancers, gymnasts and acrobats famously donning sequined Spandex costumes, their faces painted in brightly colored makeup.